The bus crashed into the two trucks for as yet unknown reasons at the 16 km sign in the direction towards the M1 motorway, the authority’s spokesman Attila Csámpai said.

Two drivers and twenty-three passengers were travelling on the bus and one of the drivers suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene, he said.

Ambulance services spokesman Pal Győrfi said two men suffered serious injuries and 17 people were injured lightly. All of them were taken to hospital, he said.

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